ຫວາຍແດງນ້ອຍ / Red Slender Rattane
APA 6th ed. ຫວາຍແດງນ້ອຍ / Red Slender Rattane. (2021, August 27). Retrieved from https://www.phakhaolao.la/index.php/kb/0000155
MLA 8th ed. ຫວາຍແດງນ້ອຍ / Red Slender Rattane. Pha Khao Lao, 27 August 2021, https://www.phakhaolao.la/index.php/kb/0000155.
Chicago 17th ed. Pha Khao Lao. 2021. "ຫວາຍແດງນ້ອຍ / Red Slender Rattane." Published August 27, 2021. https://www.phakhaolao.la/index.php/kb/0000155.
Calamus turbinatus Ridl.
Plectocomia geminiflora (Griff.) H.Wendl.
Plectocomiopsis geminiflora var. billitonensis Becc.
Plectocomiopsis geminiflora var. borneensis Becc.
Lao: wai deng, wai dengnoy, wai nou, wai nyang, wai kamlao, nyang
Viet: mây rút, mây đỏ, mây đọt đắng
Description. Stems clustered, climbing and forming thickets, to 15 m long and 2.5 cm diameter. Leaf sheaths green or grayish, with scattered, yellow, needle-like, to 2 cm long (longer at sheath apices) spines; ocreas to 3 cm long, becoming tattered; knees absent; flagella absent; petioles short or absent; rachis to 1.3 m long with 12-20, lanceolate leaflets per side, these irregularly arranged, pendulous, with conspicuous, yellow bristles on the upper surfaces; cirri present, to 0.5 m long. Inflorescences to 0.4 m long; fruits depressed-globose, to 3 cm long and 3.5 cm diameter, yellowish-green. Distribution and habitat. Cambodia, Laos, and South-central Vietnam in Binh Thuan, Dong Nai, and Khanh Hoa)(also in Myanmar, Thailand, Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, and Sumatra) in lowland evergreen forest, usually in disturbed places or forest margins, at 20-158 m elevation. Flowering and fruiting. Fruits May. (M. Peters & A. Henderson, 2014).
Uses. Produces a poor quality cane that is seldom used.